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On the Highways and in the Hedges: Kate Furbish’s Botanical Century.

On the Highways and in the Hedges: Kate Furbish’s Botanical Century.

On the Highways and in the Hedges: Kate Furbish’s Botanical Century.

In 1870, botany in the state of Maine was an underdeveloped and precarious thing. In the 1670s, John Josselyn had published a brace of...

Dale DeBakcsy

Jun 17

Raising Nature Girls: How 18th Century Botanist Catharina Helena Dörrien Created Girls' Science Education.

Raising Nature Girls: How 18th Century Botanist Catharina Helena Dörrien Created Girls' Science Education.

Raising Nature Girls: How 18th Century Botanist Catharina Helena Dörrien Created Girls' Science Education.

Pondering the Enlightenment, one's thoughts tend to turn Frenchwards. The verbal barbs of Voltaire, the neuroses of Rousseau, the...

Dale DeBakcsy

Mar 1, 2024

Janaki Ammal And the Fight for India’s Botanical Future.

Janaki Ammal And the Fight for India’s Botanical Future.

Janaki Ammal And the Fight for India’s Botanical Future.

Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of...

Dale DeBakcsy

Apr 27, 2023

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